Allegheny County Property Taxes Higher Than National Average

PITTSBURGH, PA - Allegheny County homeowners pay higher real estate taxes than the national average, a new study has determined.

Tax statistics curator ATTOM Data Solution’s 2017 property tax analysis shows that nationally, homeowners paid average property taxes of $3,399 per home - an effective tax rate of 1.17 percent.

The effective tax rate is the average annual property tax expressed as a percentage of the average estimated market value of homes in each geographic area. Pennsylvania had the nation’s sixth-highest effective tax rate at 2.02 percent.

The owners of Allegheny County’s 359,071 single-family homes paid an average of $3,492 for an effective tax rate of 1.92 percent. That’s lower than the state average, but considerably higher than the national average.

Allegheny County’s average estimated value for single-family homes was $181,923.

Here’s how that compares to neighboring counties:

• Butler

Number of single-family homes: 50,546
Average estimated value: $253,559
Average property tax: $3,182
Effective tax rate: 1.25 percent

• Washington

Number of single-family homes: 71,482
Average estimated value: $186,004
Average property tax: $2,944
Effective tax rate: 1.58 percent

• Westmoreland County

Number of single-family homes: 57,518
Average estimated value: $119,472
Average property tax: $2,295
Effective tax rate: 3.99 percent

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